Job Summary
We are looking for a band five social worker to join our adult community mental health service in Cheshunt.
Responsibilities
- Provide high-quality social care to adults facing mental health challenges.
- Conduct assessment, care planning, and coordination, following a recovery framework that prioritises individual choice and control.
- Support and assess carers.
- Manage a caseload, coordinate care, provide assessments, and deliver specific interventions for service users, their carers, and families.
- Work well in a team, manage workload, and show initiative.
Qualifications and Experience
- Newly qualified Social Worker or have some experience.
- Enthusiastic, compassionate, and believe in recovery for people with severe mental health issues.
- Interest in mental health issues, understanding of Care Programme Approach, Care Management, and Safeguarding.
- Support for newly qualified Social Workers through the ASYE program.
About the Trust
- Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust is one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission.
- Our family of over 4,000 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health, and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings.
- Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our trust values embedded throughout: Welcoming, Kind, Positive, Respectful, Professional.
